[dogscoff]

Paintball is great fun. Done properly (ie protective face goggles, heavy clothes, instant ban for anyone targetting face) the worst you'll get is a set of squash-ball sized bruises all over your body, which are great for showing off and scoring sympathy from women=-)

The thing about paintball is, it is a sharp reminder of just how completely and arbitrarily dead you would be if you ever went to war. You're hiding behind a tree near the enemy objective with no-one else in sight, thinking "no-one can see me, I am invincible" and suddenly... SPLATSPLATSPLAT you've got three paint splodges over some of your favourite vital organs. No more lives, no magic medipacks, no poignant message whispered to a comrade in your dying breath... instantly dead, and you never even saw where it came from.

I ain't ever going to war for real unless there's a *really* good reason for it.